Appendix:Legendary and Mythical Pokémon

Legendary Pokémon and Mythical Pokémon are Pokémon that are exceptionally rare and often very powerful, generally featured prominently in the legends and myths of the Pokémon world. Many Legendary Pokémon are version mascots in the score series games. Mythical Pokémon were originally considered to be Legendary Pokémon as well, but they were implied to be different from Legendary Pokémon in side series game Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs, and later officially separated in another side series game Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon. Most Legendary and Mythical Pokémon are unobtainable as for now.

Characteristics
Most Legendary and Mythical Pokémon are renowned for their stats and performance in battles. Most of these Pokémon can only be captured once, like Jirachi as an example, and the player has to trade for more of them. Exceptions are the Lake Guardians, which can be dug up as Fossilized Eggs in Lagoona Trenches, as well as Manaphy, which are washed ashore as Manaphy Eggs when the event is held on Rosecove Beach.

Legendary and Mythical Pokémon cannot evolve, other than the newly introduced Cosmog family. They also cannot breed, except Manaphy, which produces Phione Eggs when bred with Ditto.

Many of these Pokémon are worshipped as gods by particular groups of people in the Pokémon world, due to the fact that these particular Pokémon have unique powers and representation of different items; an example would be Groudon, which represents lithosphere, and expanded the land.

In the Pokédex for each generation portion, Mythical Pokémon typically appear at the very end, and Legendary Pokémon immediately before them, except Victini, which appears right before Unova Starter Pokémon.

Legendary Pokémon
Here is a list of Legendary Pokémon which have appeared in-game. Italics indicate that the Legendary Pokémon can only be seen as of now.

Mythical Pokémon
Here is a list of Mythical Pokémon which have appeared in-game. Italics indicate that the Mythical Pokémon can only be seen as of now. Despite currently not physically appearing in the story, Hoopa is the version mascot of Pokémon Brick Bronze, and is mentioned a few times in-game.